Common Name The Bellied Bulbophyllum [refers to the wide rounded mentum formed by the fusion of the 2 lateral sepals and the lip]

Flower Size .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm]

Found in northern and central Madagascar in lichen rich evergreen forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] between each slender, yellow, unangled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong to oblanceolate, shortly contracted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on a basal, erect, peduncle 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long, to 10.4" [to 26 cm] long overall, 10 to 22 flowered inflorescence with subacute, less than half the length of the flowers floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.